Norvic Philatelics - GB New Stamps and Special Postmarks

The World of Invention - 1 March 2007 - stamps and miniature sheet

Royal Mail's The World of Invention stamp issue comprises of
six self-adhesive stamps featuring landmarks
in engineering and technology. Each of the inventions is illustrated in
by Guardian cartoonist
Peter Till in his own whimsical style with formatting and typography by
Peter Willberg. On the
backing paper a description of each invention is printed.

Thomas Telford was the engineering genius who built the roads,
bridges, canals and docks without which the industrial revolution could
not have happened. Now 250 years after his birth, Royal Mail celebrates
the work of engineers and inventors who have changed our lives through
technology.

These are the second British stamps to be issued with a
description on the reverse of the backing paper. Each value is
printed
in sheets of 30, 15 of each design. The images show the reverse
and the
stamp designs.

Column 2

Column 1

Column 1

Column 2

On the miniature sheet the stamps are as above. The border
features an original
patent drawing of a cathode coupled pair by Alan Dower Blumlein.

To commemorate the birth of Thomas Telford in Westerkirk, Scotland
250 years ago, Royal Mail is also issuing
a Prestige Stamp Book. The book has been written by TV science pundit
Adam Hart-Davis who in his
own inimitable style takes us on a journey from the building of Roman
roads to the Moon
landings. The book designed by Russell Warren-Fisher also contains four
unique stamp panes.
Fittingly one of the panes contains mixed Welsh and Scottish definitive
stamps, celebrating the
Scots engineer who connected Anglesey to the rest of Wales, as shown
below.

Technical details:

Stamps. The format & typography is by Peter Willberg,
with illustrations by Peter Gill. The self-adhesive stamps are 32x30mm,
and are printed in gravure by De La Rue Security Printers. The backing
paper of the stamps is printed with information about the subjects of
the stamps.
The Miniature sheet is conventionally gummed and printed in
gravure by De La Rue.
The panes in the Prestige Stamp Book are all conventionally
gummed and printed by De La Rue in gravure:
Pane 1: Country stamps, Scotland 2nd class and Wales 44p on a
map of the Menai Straits;
Pane 2: Machin definitives 5p & 1st class standard PIP
surrounding a label depicting Sir Rowland Hill, the background showing
a Queen Victoria 1d red stamp;
Pane 3: Invention stamps: 1st railway, 64p television, 64p
telephone, 1st bridge, with an early television screen in the
background;
Pane 4: Invention stamps: 1st bridge, 72p space travel, 72p
internet, 1st railway, on a background commemorating the Telstar
satellite.
Note, pane descriptions are in the book order, which is not the
order Royal Mail showed them!

All images except FDCs are Copyright Royal Mail
2006/07.

Norvic Exclusive First Day Cover

We have produced exclusive limited edition covers for the set, the
miniature sheet and the prestige stamp book panes.

Our FDC for set of 6 stamps shows four Inventions from Norfolk, and
is available with a choice of postmarks depicting Tim Berners-Lee who
is credited with
inventing the World Wide Web by you can see this page; or Alexander
Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone without which the internet would
not work!
The covers are priced at £8.95 each.

The cover used for all four prestige stamp book panes (see above)
shows Telford's suspension bridge at Conwy in north Wales.
We have used a different appropriate postmark on each pane and the set
is priced at £18.50.

Products
issued:
Mint set
Mint miniature sheet
Prestige Stamp Book
Presentation Pack
Set or MS on Royal Mail FDC
Set of 7 Stamp Cards unused

Spot the difference

While the stamps delivered to post offices and sent to collectors
come from sheets in which the backing paper is rouletted (perforated in
slits), those in the presentation pack have been separated by
conventional guillotining, resulting in straight edges. In any other
circumstance we would refer to such a variation as 'imperforate'.
These stamps are only available in the packs.

Special Postmarks
Postmarks available for the day of issue are shown below - these may
not be to scale. These postmarks cannot be obtained after the date
of issue.

If you have any questions about these stamps please email
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